Cognizant (Kinetic Sculpture)

Cognizant is a Wood PLA kinetic sculpture made by Jayleen Li

It's printed with Wood PLA with colors Cherry Wood, Walnut Wood, and Maple Wood. There are metal bearings that allows the parts to rotate (608 Steel Ball Bearings 8mm x 22mm x 7mm).

To assemble, please follow the project file instructions. The print settings are for regular PLA but I couldn't upload my Wood PLA settings to Bambu since it's classified as a custom filament. You can print this in regular PLA but the print I made is in Wood PLA. I would recommend looking at the Wood PLA you have and using what settings it recommends.

The main settings:

• 5% infill by default except for:
  • 30% infill for big spiral gear centers
  • 10% for big spiral gear with subgear edges
  • 50% infill for the base
• Only the subgears need supports. It will be much easier to remove support if you use Support PLA at the interface layer

I don't have specific documentation since I thought it is pretty simple but if it doesn't make sense let me know.

I was inspired by David C Roy's wooden kinetic sculptures so you might see a strong resemblance here ;) 

I made a YouTube Video that goes into more detail how I made this project! Check it out here.